Harris, Noel Gordon (1897-1963)

Correspondence; records of involvement in teaching and policy-making in psychiatry, and in treatment, especially of epilepsy.

c. 1934-1963

2 boxes

These papers were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in December 1985 by Joyce Griffith, Harris's daughter, along with the papers of her husband E. F. Griffith.

20 Dec 1897 born
1913 attack of rheumatic fever curtails his education and leaves him with a damaged heart
1919 Studies medicine at St Thomas's
1922 BMA prize for thesis on jaundice and gallbladder obstruction
1923 MRCS LRCP Marries the Hon Thelma Kitson Takes post at Springfield Mental Hospital
1925 MB BS
1928 DPM
1930 Chief Assistant in the Psychological Department at St Thomas's
1933 MD
1935 Physician in charge of St Luke's-Woodside
1937 MRCP
1938 Joins consultant staff of the Middlesex Hospital Member of the Advisory Board, Marriage Guidance Council
1939 Appointed first civil consultant in psychological medicine to the Navy: resigns job because of pressures of work in the Emergency Medical Service
1941 FRCP
1948 St Luke's-Woodside becomes part of the Middlesex
1954-55 President of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association
1958-59 President of the Mental Health Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health
1959 Retires Receives honorary membership of the RMPA
1960 President Psychiatric Section, Royal Society of Medicine
20 Oct 1963 Dies
For further details see obituaries in the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, and Munk's Roll, Vol V.

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